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Sample of authors
Vachss, Andrew H.
Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long Island. His mother read extensively to him as a child, and he started to collect books as a teenager. One of his eyes was damaged in a playground accident when he was seven years old, and although he was not blind in that eye, he wore an eye patch to exclude unsettling light...
Literary figures
Kent Murdock
Gender: Male
Photographer, amateur detective and former war hero, who, according to author George Harmon Coxe, advanced to become a very well-paid picture director at a major daily newspaper. The cosmopolitan Kent Murdock is tall and attractive with a charming smile, and moves as freely in luxury restaurants as in seedy bars. He lives in a luxurious apartment with his intelligent and beautiful wife Joyce.